tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 27 19:19:03 1998
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Re: chorgh tagh 'uQ'a'?
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: chorgh tagh 'uQ'a'?
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:17:44 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:14:29 -0800 (PST) SuSvaj
<[email protected]> wrote:
> At 10:50 AM 12/24/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >Whilst reading Russian history this week, I found something that could have
> >been uttered by a Klingon. This is Idiger Khan's response to Ivan the
> >Terrible in 1552 at the siege of Kazan, rejecting the Russian terms of
> >surrender:
> >
> > chorgh tagh 'uQ'a'? 'Iw HIvje' wItlhutlhrup.
>
> Shouldn't the second part of this be: "'Iw HIvje'vo' wItlhutlhrup."? After
> all it's not actually the cup that one is drinking.
Well, I'd either say it as:
'Iw HIvje'vo' matlhutlhrup.
or
HIvje'vo' 'Iw wItlhutlhrup.
See my point?
> SuSvaj
> >
> >--
> >Voragh
> >Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
charghwI' 'utlh